About Linköping
Future now
With 160,000 inhabitants, Linköping is Sweden’s fifth largest city.
Known for its ground-breaking innovations and high quality of life, the city also boasts a perfect location. This is Linköping – a city where the future is ever-present.
Welcome to the city with one eye on the future. A city where world-leading research and ground-breaking innovations are creating a better future, where the university and the business community work together to make innovative ideas a reality. It is a city with a perfect location – where the talent of tomorrow is already here Because this is Linköping – a city where the future is ever-present.
The perfect location
It couldn’t be easier to get to or from Linköping and out into the world. In fact, Linköping and neighbouring Norrköping share an ideal location. Östergötland has one of the best locations in Sweden for communication and transport, right in the geographical centre between Sweden’s two largest cities. Within a radius of 30 miles from Linköping, you can reach 80 percent of all of Sweden’s limited companies. It is easy to get out into the world from Linköping. Linköping City Airport is just a few minutes from the city, offering several daily departures to Schiphol, Amsterdam and the world.
Ground-breaking innovations
Here in Linköping, we take pride in our fantastic business community. We have a strong tradition of innovation that relies heavily on collaboration. We have a large range of industry and technical expertise. And we are home to one of the world’s leading universities. Perhaps this is precisely why so many ground-breaking innovations actually originate right here in Linköping – the city of the future. Linköping has also been recognized by the EU as one of Europe’s most innovative cities.
The life-friendly city
Linköping is a safe, welcoming and life-friendly city. The city is a vibrant blend of young and old, new immigrants, entrepreneurs, innovators and not least, 36,000 students. In Linköping, residents are able to pursue their hobbies and let their creative juices flow. We could go on forever about all of the wonderful things our city has to offer. Linköping simply has everything you could ever want from a modern urban centre – with a rich and varied range of options for cultural enthusiasts, as well as for families with children, the outdoorsy type and those who would prefer to dance the night away – or to browse through the latest fashion or home design options after meeting up with friends at a café for a Sunday brunch. But that is just the beginning.